cdtoc

- CD-ROM table of contents file

Description

The table of contents file, .cdtoc, is an ASCII file that describes the
contents of a CD-ROM or other software distribution media. It resides in the
top-level directory of the file system on a slice of a CD-ROM. It
is independent of file system format, that is, the file system on the
slice can be either UFS or HSFS.

Each entry in the .cdtoc file is a line that establishes the value
of a parameter in the following form:

PARAM=value

Blank lines and comments (lines preceded by a pound-sign, ``#'') are also allowed
in the file. Parameters are grouped by product, with the beginning of a
product defined by a line of the form:

PRODNAME=value

Each product is expected to consist of one or more software packages that
are stored together in a subdirectory on the distribution media. There can be
any number of products described within the file. There is no required order
in which the parameters must be specified, except that the parameters must be
grouped by product and the PRODNAME parameter must appear first in the list
of parameters for each product specified. Each parameter is described below. All of
the parameters are required for each product.

PRODNAME

The full name of the product. This must be unique within the .cdtoc file and is preferably unique across all possible products. This value may contain white space. The length of this value is limited to 256 ASCII characters; other restrictions may apply (see below).

PRODVERS

The version of the product. The value can contain any combination of letters, numbers, or other characters. This value may contain white space. The length of this value is limited to 256 ASCII characters; other restrictions may apply (see below).

PRODDIR

The name of the top-level directory containing the product. This name should be relative to the top-level directory of the distribution media, for example, Solaris_2.6/Product. The number of path components in the name is limited only by the system's maximum path name length, which is 1024 ASCII characters. Any single component is limited to 256 ASCII characters. This value cannot contain white space.

The lengths of the values of PRODNAME and PRODVERS are further constrained by
the fact that the initial install programs concatenate these values to produce the full
product name. For unbundled products the combined length of the values of PRODNAME
and PRODVERS must not exceed 256 ASCII characters.

When you install OS services with Solstice Host Manager, directories for diskless clients
are created by constructing names derived from a concatenation of the values of
PRODNAME, PRODVERS, and client architecture, for example, /export/exec/Solaris_2.x_sparc.all/usr/platform. The length of the component
containing the product name and version must not exceed 256 ASCII characters. Thus, for
products corresponding to bundled OS releases (for example, Solaris 2.4), the values
of PRODNAME and PRODVERS are effectively restricted to lengths much less than 256.

The initial install programs use the value of the PRODDIR macro in
the .cdtoc file to indicate where packages can be found.